The mysterious third-floor Dome Room will finally
be open to the public on June 11.PHOTO BY TOM
DALY

Monticello was designed for the pleasure and architectural
curiosity of its owner, but as a new tour and exhibit will show, it was also
designed for the enslaved workers who moved about the house
relatively unseen, serving food, changing linens, and emptying
chamber pots.

Fluvanna resident Feda Kidd
Morton hopes her grassroots efforts will overcome a lack of cash on
hand in the 5th District Republican primary.PUBLICITY PHOTO

Could one of the top "family values" candidates have a big
family problem? Documents reviewed by the Hook suggest
that Feda Kidd
Morton, a Republican seeking the nomination to run for U.S.
Congress in the 5th District, lost custody of her four minor
children in 2004 over her alleged "anger and bitterness." Morton
has moved to block the custody story, having allegedly secured a
temporary injunction stopping anyone from publishing such
documents.

In 2003,
Andrew Alston was charged with second degree murder for
stabbing local firefighter Walker Sisk to death on the Corner, and
many were stunned when a jury sentenced him to three years for
voluntary manslaughter.

So what can a shocked community expect when
Huguely eventually comes to trial?

The Hook checked with a couple of
top gun defense lawyers to see how they'd defend the young man who
made...

Lewis' accomplishments
were noted in magazines such as Albemarle, left, and an economic
development brochure, right.LEWIS FAMILY
COLLECTION

One of Charlottesville's leading businesspeople, the man
credited with creating the first major wave of residences on the
Downtown Mall, has lost his battle with cancer, according to family
members. Charles E. "Chuck" Lewis III died Monday, May 3.

He will be remembered not only for putting
people on the Mall but also for a rags-to-riches story that
included founding a major local produce company–- part of a love
story that broke his heart.

According to his autobiography, All the
Riches of Job, Lewis never got over the death of his wife and
business partner, the former Kathy Jotz, who died at the age of 42
in 1989 due to a severe nighttime asthma attack. Lewis would later
name both the produce company–- which the couple started with an
old car and $250–- and a new co...

Bradley and the crash of Piedmont Flight #349
were the subject of a last October Hook cover
story.PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER

For the second time in 50 years, a flight problem has meant that
Phil Bradley won't be landing in Charlottesville. The 83-year-old
North Carolina man famously survived the
1959 crash that claimed 26 lives on final approach, but
organizers of
a commemorative event slated for May 5 decided not to tempt
fate when a brake problem was discovered in the aging DC-3 that was
to bring Bradley to the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport
Wednesday.

Organizer and Lynchburg-area resident Donald
Stokes says that parts can't be obtained in time to make the flight
but that Bradley will go forward with a tal...